Old Forge Cottage

Old Forge Cottage is a house dating from the 15th or early 16th century, with alterations made in the 16th and 20th centuries. It features a 2-cell cross-passage entrance plan and stands one and a half storeys tall with attics. The building is timber-framed and rendered, with the front encased in 20th-century red brick. It has a thatched roof with thatched gabled dormers and a rendered brick gable chimney. The windows are aluminium casements, and there is a brick and plain-tiled 20th-century entrance porch with a battened and boarded door.

Inside, the cottage has an open hall house with twin service rooms on the right-hand side. The 2-bay hall has a soot-blackened coupled-rafter roof, which shows evidence of a former crown-post system. A first-floor structure was inserted into the hall in the late 16th century, and the roof above the service rooms was rebuilt in the 18th century. The cottage is included in the listing despite its 20th-century alterations due to its early and relatively complete framing, as well as its historical significance as the village blacksmith's house until the 20th century.